I used DEC equipment, but you have the right idea.
10MB interchangeable cartridges that could take up to a half-hour to intialise if
something wasn't happy.
Big turn-handles on top of the case, and you'd have to slide out a drawer to drop them
in to the cabinet.
They collected an s-load of dirt and had to be hand-cleaned.
The read-write heads were so large you could see every detail of their design.
Now-a-days we use SEM technology to test quality and measure deviations in design
geometry on the read-write heads.
Am I old?
----- Original Message -----
From: Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback
> Were those pizza sized discs a type of hard cartridge
> with the name "Nashua" stamped on the side?
>
> And did they have a clean function in which an arm
> came out over the installed disc with the words
> "turn slowly" stamped on the arm?
>
> Hehehe my dad used to have an old Century 2100
> something or other, might not be the right name,
> I think it was an "NCR" type of system.
>
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